Many people think rap music is a fa

Many people think rap music is a fad which they hope will go away. However, it has been around for over 20 years. “Hip Hop” culture includes graffiti, break dancing and dress of the people of this sub-culture. Everything points to the Bronx area in New York City as the origin of Hip Hop.
The Bronx underwent major changes in the 1960s. Enormous apartment buildings were built for the growing population and these soon turned into slums. Middle-class people moved out of the area and poor black families moved in. Crime, drug addiction, and unemployment were big problems. Young people formed street gangs. One thing which affected the Hip Hop culture was gang graffiti. Street gangs wrote graffiti to mark their territory.
Meanwhile, something was happening in Jamaica, which had an enormous influence on Hip Hop. The DJs there shouted to the dancers in time with the rhythm of the music – the first form of “rapping”.
When rapping started in New York, new dances were invented. First, there was break dancing. This often involved spinning your body around on the floor. . Nowadays, there is free style – dancers just do what they want. If you look at the fashions of the Hip Hop culture, you can see the choice of clothes was influenced by the way of dancing. You need comfortable clothes to do break dancing. The fashion for trousers hanging below the hips has a different origin. Unfortunately, a lot of young people from the Bronx have had prison experience. Prisoners have to remove their belts so they can use them as weapons. As a result, prisoners would walk around with their jeans hanging low.
When these young men were released, they brought this habit to their neighbourhood. And this style became popular with many young men who didn’t realize where it came from.
Today, rap music is popular not only with ethnic groups but also with a mass white audience. Yes, today’s rap music is for everyone!